W. S. Riddle Notion Company, Sam Lapidus Clothing Company, Southern Coat and Dress Company, Golden Art Hosiery, and Everett Beasley Inc. were among the buildings that once delineated the outer perimeter of the public square in Nashville, Tennessee....
This image shows the destruction the east side of Nashville's public square. The square, with the county courthouse, city hall and market center, was a focus of wholesale commerce and political activity for the city for many years. The old city...
This attractive seven-room home, located on the Hillsboro Road at Abbott Lane, in Nashville, Tennessee, was built for Mrs. Chauncey C. Foster. The residence was built upon the foundation of the old Foster home, after it was destroyed by fire circa...
This attractive seven-room home, located on the Hillsboro Road at Abbott Lane, in Nashville, Tennessee, was built for Mrs. Chauncey C. Foster. The residence was built upon the foundation of the old Foster home, after it was destroyed by fire circa...
This attractive seven-room home, located on the Hillsboro Road at Abbott Lane, in Nashville, Tennessee, was built for Mrs. Chauncey C. Foster. The residence was built upon the foundation of the old Foster home, after it was destroyed by fire circa...
This attractive seven-room home, located on the Hillsboro Road at Abbott Lane, in Nashville, Tennessee, was built for Mrs. Chauncey C. Foster. The residence was built upon the foundation of the old Foster home, after it was destroyed by fire circa...
This attractive seven-room home, located on the Hillsboro Road at Abbott Lane, in Nashville, Tennessee, was built for Mrs. Chauncey C. Foster. The residence was built upon the foundation of the old Foster home, after it was destroyed by fire circa...
This attractive seven-room home, located on the Hillsboro Road at Abbott Lane, in Nashville, Tennessee, was built for Mrs. Chauncey C. Foster. The residence was built upon the foundation of the old Foster home, after it was destroyed by fire circa...
This attractive seven-room home, located on the Hillsboro Road at Abbott Lane, in Nashville, Tennessee, was built for Mrs. Chauncey C. Foster. The residence was built upon the foundation of the old Foster home, after it was destroyed by fire circa...
Third Baptist Church was organized in 1876. In 1877 the membership erected a building on a Jefferson Street site given to the congregation by First Baptist Church. In 1899 the congregation purchased a lot on Monroe Street and in 1904, using brick...
The West Meade Mansion was built in 1886 by U.S. Supreme Court Judge Howell E. Jackson, and his wife, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of General William G. Harding. The stately red brick mansion with a huge porch is built in the French Victorian style....
The inside front cover from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty...
The historic Belle Meade Plantation was founded by John Harding, of Goochland County, Virginia in 1807. Harding purchased 250 acres of farm land near Richland Creek and the Natchez Trace. He was very interested in horses and soon boarded horses...
Pictured: “Plan scrap movie: the suburban theaters operated by the Crescent Amusement Company will cooperate in the Banner scrap drive when a special program for young and old will be held Saturday morning at 10 o’clock with 10 pounds of scrap...
Pictured: “Part of Giles million pound scrap collection: around the borders of the Giles County courtyard at Pulaski, piled up for all to see, is a portion of the county’s 1,153,020-pound salvage collection assembled since the opening of the...
Pictured: “No age limit on patriotism: when Jackson County started assembling scrap to enter the Banner contest just about everybody in the county took part in a mass movement of patriotism. Young and old came out to a scrap rally at Gainesboro,...
Pictured: “Cannon balls donated: these six-inch, solid cast-iron cannon balls, Civil War relics recovered from construction work on the old National Casket Company factory, on the site now occupied by the Tennessee Central Railway Station, are to...
Pictured: “ Wrought iron gates on way to scrap pile: these picturesque iron gates and another pair just like them, located on the old Keith estate on Harding Road, now owned by Abe Olshine, will shortly be made into less ornate but more emphatic...
Photograph of unidentified African-American military band during World War II, probably taken at or near Karachi Air Base in India (now in Pakistan). Photograph probably taken by Morris Levine. Morris Levine was born on Dec. 8, 1917 in Nashville,...
Photograph of soldiers in uniform, reading from the Torah at a Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) service in Karachi, India during World War II. In 1943 (Hebrew year 5704), the holiday began at sundown on Wednesday, September 29 and continued through...